Increase Your Vocabulary Skills with Greater Efficiency

The best way to improve vocabulary is to become familiar with the multitudes of commonly recurring roots, prefixes, and suffixes from Latin and Greek sources; and with the available processes of semantic changes, rather than to try to memorize each new word separately. Also, words that should be learned are more useful when they are being categorized into thematic units than if they are arranged into alphabetical order with no related grouping.

For most students, there is a serious and almost insurmountable barrier to studying other languages merely to increase English vocabulary. They do not have enough time to learn the grammar, spelling, syntax, and vocabulary of French, Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, Greek, etc. merely to become acquainted with words from those languages that have been assimilated into English. Although studying such languages can be invaluable to a serious student of English, most people want a shorter, more direct method of increasing vocabulary.

Fortunately, knowing Latin and Greek roots, prefixes, and suffixes can provide a far greater knowledge of English vocabulary than merely memorizing lists of unrelated words. To learn more about where you may access the mother lode of English words derived from Latin and Greek sources, visit this Cross-References Search area so you can find out how you and others may take advantage of this vast wealth of personal vocabulary expansion.